Word: squatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With characteristic (Tobacco Road) humor, Caldwell spotlights a Southern squatter community, called Poor Boy, and follows the dreamy, hard-drinking career of a onetime highly-paid war worker, called Spence Douthit, who amiably man ages to resist every attempted reform -including his own delinquent daughter's. Caldwell's characters, as usual, outrage every decent instinct and stir every other kind...
...Hampshire boy who went to California for his health after diving into an ice-covered vat near Dartmouth on a dare. In Los Angeles, Chandler's racking cough so annoyed his landlady that she asked him to move. He wandered into the hills, got a job with a squatter breaking colts and picking fruit. As part payment he got permission to sell some of the fruit to nearby Mexican laborers. In a year he had saved $3,000. He went to work for fiery, union-hating General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the four-page Times, as a circulation...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
When Anse Bushman rents ground to a shiftless squatter, Boliver Tussie, he offers an inhuman contract forbidding whiskeymaking, fishing, frolics and immoral conduct, on pain of eviction and confiscation of crops. Boliver has to take it or leave the land; he takes it. Living up to it is another matter. The latter half of the novel develops a desperate contest between two types of land-lover - the owner and the enjoyer. For perhaps the first time since Huckleberry Finn, the squatter's anarchic, slovenly, sensual life is presented as enviable. Meanwhile Bushman's son Tarvin and Subrinea Tussie...